Amanda Neal Roth
@amandanealroth.bsky.social
Native Angeleno. Interested in justice, housing, history, music, art and film. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Pinned
Opinion | The Pressure of Poverty in Appalachia
www.nytimes.com
Gift Article from The New York Times
Photographs by Maddie McGarvey
Text by Emi Nietfeld
This piece is unflinching in its portrayal of how young people are neglected by our systems in America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Photographs by Maddie McGarvey
Text by Emi Nietfeld
This piece is unflinching in its portrayal of how young people are neglected by our systems in America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Why doesn’t The Times investigate what people pay for basic necessities in other countries versus the US? Americans are being conned. As workers’ wealth is taken, handed upward, and used to pay for ICE, Trump blames Biden and tells us to accept our own exploitation—and even be grateful for it.
The White House is trying to tamp down Americans’ economic anxieties by dangling the prospect of tariff rebates and large tax refunds next year, hoping that the money might assuage voters who blame President Trump for their rising cost of living.
Trump Dangles Cash Payments to Assuage Affordability Concerns
With tariffs unpopular and prices still high, the White House has teased the promise of tariff rebates and large tax refunds next year.
nyti.ms
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Why doesn’t The Times investigate what people pay for basic necessities in other countries versus the US? Americans are being conned. As workers’ wealth is taken, handed upward, and used to pay for ICE, Trump blames Biden and tells us to accept our own exploitation—and even be grateful for it.
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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One unarmed civilian has more balls than 300+ Texas Cops that responded to Uvalde.
A terror attack at a Jewish Hanukkah festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach killed 11 and wounded at least 29, including police. One suspect is dead and another critically injured. Australian leaders call it antisemitic terrorism. Ukraine’s Zelensky offered condolences and support to Australia.
December 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I feel deeply saddened and sickened by the news of this attack. The people and leaders of Chabad whom I know are incredibly kind and generous, working tirelessly to provide warmth and community around the world. Ahmed al Amed is indeed a hero. When will governments act to stop this kind of violence?
December 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I feel deeply saddened and sickened by the news of this attack. The people and leaders of Chabad whom I know are incredibly kind and generous, working tirelessly to provide warmth and community around the world. Ahmed al Amed is indeed a hero. When will governments act to stop this kind of violence?
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Make America Healthy Again. Really?
Double ACA premiums. Kick 15 million off health care. Undermine lifesaving vaccines and spark disease outbreaks.
The Trump administration is endangering the health of the American people.
Double ACA premiums. Kick 15 million off health care. Undermine lifesaving vaccines and spark disease outbreaks.
The Trump administration is endangering the health of the American people.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Make America Healthy Again. Really?
Double ACA premiums. Kick 15 million off health care. Undermine lifesaving vaccines and spark disease outbreaks.
The Trump administration is endangering the health of the American people.
Double ACA premiums. Kick 15 million off health care. Undermine lifesaving vaccines and spark disease outbreaks.
The Trump administration is endangering the health of the American people.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gift article filled with insight. Tried the AI listening option and it's not bad. "Authoritarian China is a nation now run by engineers, he points out; democratic America has become a nation of lawyers, litigating development and delaying or derailing big heaves like California’s high-speed train."
America Wants to Build Again. If You Squint, You’ll See Hopeful Signs.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gift article filled with insight. Tried the AI listening option and it's not bad. "Authoritarian China is a nation now run by engineers, he points out; democratic America has become a nation of lawyers, litigating development and delaying or derailing big heaves like California’s high-speed train."
Excellent article. The comments are amazing with some saying, "If you can't afford it, move somewhere else." Solving our housing problems in the US will require major cultural change. People will have to start thinking beyond their own self-interest and consider the well-being of their communities.
Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming and New York Is the Epicenter
A tour of Manhattan buildings you can now call home, and a peek inside the architectural hacks that make transformations possible.
www.wsj.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Excellent article. The comments are amazing with some saying, "If you can't afford it, move somewhere else." Solving our housing problems in the US will require major cultural change. People will have to start thinking beyond their own self-interest and consider the well-being of their communities.
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Invading Venezuela will do nothing to protect the United States and directly puts American lives at risk. We must stand up now and stop President Trump from dragging us into war with Venezuela.
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Invading Venezuela will do nothing to protect the United States and directly puts American lives at risk. We must stand up now and stop President Trump from dragging us into war with Venezuela.
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So it wasn’t about the drugs, then? It was just about killing people? Pete Hegseth needs to be tried in The Hague. That’s more than these people got.
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So it wasn’t about the drugs, then? It was just about killing people? Pete Hegseth needs to be tried in The Hague. That’s more than these people got.
“Two Swiss lawmakers are calling for a bribery investigation into gifts Trump got from a delegation seeking lower tariffs. The group gave Trump an engraved gold bar and a Rolex table clock. Around a week and a half later, Trump lowered the tariffs.”
Massive White House Protest Planned While Corporate Media Finally Defends A Journalist, and Swiss Lawmakers Push For A Serious Bribery Investigation Into Trump “Gifts”
This Great News For Us That’s Terrible For Trump Surely Ruined His Thanksgiving
Massive White House protest planned while corporate media finally defends a journalist, and Swiss lawmakers push for a serious bribery investigation into Trump “gift”
www.dworkinsubstack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Two Swiss lawmakers are calling for a bribery investigation into gifts Trump got from a delegation seeking lower tariffs. The group gave Trump an engraved gold bar and a Rolex table clock. Around a week and a half later, Trump lowered the tariffs.”
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Strange how the ideology of the Minnesota assassin was pretty much dryly noted and dropped, not used as an excuse by politicians to blame half the country for the murder.
September 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Strange how the ideology of the Minnesota assassin was pretty much dryly noted and dropped, not used as an excuse by politicians to blame half the country for the murder.
“Bregman said his comment that President Trump was the ‘most openly corrupt president in American history’ was removed before his lecture was broadcast on Tuesday.” Bergman speaks the truth. As an American, I appreciate everyone who stands up for the truth and I feel sad to see institutions caving.
Dutch Historian Accuses BBC of Censoring Trump Criticism
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“Bregman said his comment that President Trump was the ‘most openly corrupt president in American history’ was removed before his lecture was broadcast on Tuesday.” Bergman speaks the truth. As an American, I appreciate everyone who stands up for the truth and I feel sad to see institutions caving.
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“The National Guard is stranded somewhere on this battlefield of partisan politics. They are not ready for this arena, and we should never have asked them to be. Politics is not a military mission.” @juliettekayyem.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
www.theatlantic.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“The National Guard is stranded somewhere on this battlefield of partisan politics. They are not ready for this arena, and we should never have asked them to be. Politics is not a military mission.” @juliettekayyem.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Bigot. Did your Jewish ancestors who came to America, found a new home, opportunity and assimilated “import their society” or recreated “the terrors of their broken homelands?”
Would you dare say the same about Italian Americans? Irish Americans? You’d fit right in 1938 Nuremberg, on the German side
Would you dare say the same about Italian Americans? Irish Americans? You’d fit right in 1938 Nuremberg, on the German side
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Bigot. Did your Jewish ancestors who came to America, found a new home, opportunity and assimilated “import their society” or recreated “the terrors of their broken homelands?”
Would you dare say the same about Italian Americans? Irish Americans? You’d fit right in 1938 Nuremberg, on the German side
Would you dare say the same about Italian Americans? Irish Americans? You’d fit right in 1938 Nuremberg, on the German side
Seriously, I hope the arresting officer is charged, and I hope this man’s family holds Walmart accountable. It’s bad enough that Walmart drove so many small businesses under—now they act with impunity. We really should expect higher standards from businesses in our communities.
A man suffering of dementia was shopping at Walmart with his wife. He lost track of her and they got separated. He was confused and walked behind a counter to pick up some beer & put it in his kart so Walmart employees called the cop on him.The cops arrested him for shoplifting & beat him.
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Seriously, I hope the arresting officer is charged, and I hope this man’s family holds Walmart accountable. It’s bad enough that Walmart drove so many small businesses under—now they act with impunity. We really should expect higher standards from businesses in our communities.
Hopefully the states will continue to seek justice for working Americans since the US DOJ is busy working against the interests of ordinary American these days.
Justice Department to Settle Lawsuit Over Apartment Rental Pricing
The case had alleged that RealPage’s software allowed landlords to unfairly coordinate prices.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hopefully the states will continue to seek justice for working Americans since the US DOJ is busy working against the interests of ordinary American these days.
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“The world says ‘discover yourself.’ But Jesus said, ‘deny yourself!’” Graham thundered. Yet is Prestonwood Baptist denying itself? Has it denied itself its manicured campus, its gleaming buildings, its fitness center, its media company, its budgets, its empire?
America Is Becoming Dallas
Part One: The Lord of Plano.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“The world says ‘discover yourself.’ But Jesus said, ‘deny yourself!’” Graham thundered. Yet is Prestonwood Baptist denying itself? Has it denied itself its manicured campus, its gleaming buildings, its fitness center, its media company, its budgets, its empire?
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Spoiled child who toys with human lives, constantly demands attention and admiration, and screams and lies when doesn’t gets them.
Ukraine leadership expresses gratitude constantly, almost every time the US is brought up.
Ukraine leadership expresses gratitude constantly, almost every time the US is brought up.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Spoiled child who toys with human lives, constantly demands attention and admiration, and screams and lies when doesn’t gets them.
Ukraine leadership expresses gratitude constantly, almost every time the US is brought up.
Ukraine leadership expresses gratitude constantly, almost every time the US is brought up.
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Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, war didn't stop since then, which means Russia attacked Ukraine every single day of both of Trump's turms.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, war didn't stop since then, which means Russia attacked Ukraine every single day of both of Trump's turms.
Nauseating.
The post is from Alexander Dugin in telegram, the Kremlin's chief ideologue, a self-proclaimed "intellectual," a prominent russian nazi, and a happy father.
The post was written today.
The post was written today.
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Nauseating.
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Jared Kushner is in these Geneva talks.
The Russian delegation at the Geneva 'peace' plan negotiations with Ukraine on Sunday
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Jared Kushner is in these Geneva talks.
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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?